You're not referring to Ponce De Leon, are you? Because he wasn't "half Cuban." Cuba wasn't even settled yet. He did rule Puerto Rico at the same time, however.

The name of the state comes from Pascua florida, another name for Easter. The Spaniards arrive there around Holy Week

It doesn't surprise me at all, here in Spain we don't learn almost anything about that part of our own past either. I would bet 100 euros against 10 that 90% of Spaniards are unaware that Florida was once Spanish territory. Neither did California, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oregon, Guam, etc.

​@@pulsarplay5808i thought Louisiana was french?

@@brunoto.7298 From 1763 to 1803 it was officially the territory of the Spanish crown. In 1803 it was ceded again to the French government. Although the first Europeans to explore those lands and the first European to sail down the Mississippi River was the spaniard Hernando de Soto in 1541.

True but state’s current governor wants slant the other way, bad gov!

The facts presented are in Spain's favor. The british didn't see colored people as human, Spain did. Is this fact wrong? Does this not mean that Spain was good and britain was evil when compared? Are there any facts omitted that are of the same magnitude that would even the slant? I want to be unbiased but my impression is that britain has been a plague on the world and they committed atrocities that make 20th century tyrants seem like amateurs. While they are far from alone in this they seem to have been the worst.

It's not a slanted bias, this is the reality of the Spanish empire and the general empires of the iberians. First of all you need to acknowledge the fact that people from Iberia (Spain and Portugal) knew a thing or two about slavery, not because of slaves brought from Africa to the Americas alone, but because they were literally slaves to brown and black people from Africa for over 800 years before the conquest of the Americas. They were slaves mostly to Berber language speaking people and Arabs (also referred to as "the moors" which included a variety of sub-Saharan and "Sahara/North African" looking people.) People from Iberia were literally enslaved, genocided, forcefully converted to other religions, used as sex slaves, and straight up abused for fun. Sound familiar? The ending of the colonization of Iberian from these African people and the enslavement of people of Africa are literally right next to each other historically. I think Iberia was pissed, and thought "Well, they abused us for centuries, now it's our turn" Unfortunately, I think like many Americans today who think of people in terms of their skin color, they judged these people based on their exteriors to determine if they were part of the same groups. People outside of Iberia were not subject to this same level of oppression by people from Africa. You really can't compare the history of slavery done by Iberian empires in the same way to that of other European regions. Iberian's knew what it was like to be a slave to people of a very different culture, religion, and color, it was fresh in their minds. This history naturally manifests in a moral dilemma that I think a lot of people from Iberia had within themselves, including Iberian royalty. This in turn led to difference in slavery and rights of slaves within Latin America compared to their Anglo counterparts. These moral conflicts led to the "laws of burgos", and "the new laws" which forbade abuse and enslavement of indigenous people within the Spanish empire. People within the Spanish crown (Bartolome de las casas and his fellow religious colleagues) even urged the pope to make a public decree in saying the enslavement of natives was a sin, which the pope complied with in a papal bull. The pope wanted to even go as far ex-communicating people who held native slaves, but unfortunately was met with resistance on that and wasn't able to push that smaller part. Spanish crown also permitted interracial marriage in 1514, 4 centuries before the anglos even considered it. So think about it, people from Iberia had the moral guilt of knowing they were former slaves enslaving other people, having the Spanish crown telling them to not be abusive to slaves and to not enslave the Native Americans, and having the leader of your religion straight up tell you it's a sin, in a society where everyone views this guy as like the second thing next to Christ himself. To pretend this would have little to no effect on the empire of the Iberian's and the people who lived under it is ridiculous. The pope thing would have little effect on most non-iberians as the protestant movement had begun like a decade or two prior in other parts of Europe, but not in Iberia as it was deeply catholic. Now to extend on your issues with Native Americans and the Spanish. I'm sorry to tell you this, but Latin American history is not as simple as you're portraying it. The Spanish made a fundamental fact of allying with native people all across Latin America. For example, in the conquest of the Aztecs native groups outnumbered the Spanish in ridiculous numbers to the point that they could have turned on them and just murdered the Spanish; they didn't do this because the surrounding natives already had existing beef with the Aztecs. Read up about the Tlaxcaltecs and the Totonac. For the Incans, read up on the canari, huancas, chankas, huaylas, chachapoyas, and huascaran. All of these natives groups allied with Spain to defeat both of these groups you mentioned. I could go on and on telling you why you're generalizing our history as if it was the same as that of anglo-counterparts, but I think that's enough. Latin America has different history and you and the rest of the Anglo world need to respect it. I'm a fusion of Native ancestors, African ancestors, and southern European ancestors. If my ancestors would have been born in any other European empire in that time, me and 90% of Latin America wouldn't even exist. We have over 500 years of mixing to the point that the color of your skin can't even determine if you're decedent from an actual colonizer from that time. Our history is very very very different relative to other European colonial empires, respect it.

The word 'slave' is a derivation of the word Slovak.

The Indigenous peoples of Spanish territories are largely intact today, not "extinguished," as you claim. They were given their greatest cultural gifts: faith in Jesus Christ and the Spanish cultural heritage, including the Spanish language, uniting them all in the greatest civilization the world has ever known: Christendom. They, those Catholic Indians from south of the US boarder, fine, God-fearing peope with tight families and extraordinary virtue, are presently repopulating the USA, doing all of our menial work at unjust wages and every form of abuse. Take your head out of the sand!

Catholic Spain !

Most who saw the video are in shock, and many just can't believe the truth. Ignorance at work.

i ran out of tape. A Huge bummer.

And our Bill mockingly misunderstands it's use. Kudos to his chugging away at it but understand your instrument beloved brutha!